Orangeburg – It was an unusual format for a debate and it had unexpected results. You wouldn’t expect to have a clear victor in a two-party, ten-way debate, but the near unanimous verdict is that state Sen. Robert Ford (D-Charleston) was the hands-down winner tonight.

Columbia – Addressing earlier accounts that one of his key staffers was engaging in intercourse with a stripper in a cemetery, Attorney General Henry McMaster announced today that his office had successfully turned back an invasion of the undead.

In around six months, South Carolina will divide into R’s and D’s and pick our Governor Candidates, and in about a year and a month, we’ll choose between those two. That makes this, my friends, what may be your only opportunity to pick from the entire announced field (plus André, ’cause who are we kidding) of Democrats and Republicans.